Hello everyone,
The name of my very new site/forum is CollegeDropout.org, which I would like to help disenfranchised college students, and to a lesser extent high school students, (re)discover a path in their life. Right now there is just a skeleton of a forum, as it has only been active less than a day, so please forgive my total lack of content and any bugs you may run into. :wink:
The forum is layed out in support group fashion but will definitely not be 100% serious. In fact, I want there to be a "humor is the best medicine" policy. I can envision many visitors to the site to be quite depressed, full of anxiety, and some down-right hopeless.
Here's my major questions, but please add anything and everything that you think is important:
How do you best create a fun atmosphere on a forum that may be resistant to it?
What rules change when money is not a high priority? (I would like to be able to offset most hosting costs but I'm willing to take a loss myself.)
I have also registered CollegeDropouts.org to cover my bases but should I be concerned at all about using a .org?
While volume of traffic is by no means a big deal, how does one best start a community with little to start off of?
Thanks in advance!
The name of my very new site/forum is CollegeDropout.org, which I would like to help disenfranchised college students, and to a lesser extent high school students, (re)discover a path in their life. Right now there is just a skeleton of a forum, as it has only been active less than a day, so please forgive my total lack of content and any bugs you may run into. :wink:
The forum is layed out in support group fashion but will definitely not be 100% serious. In fact, I want there to be a "humor is the best medicine" policy. I can envision many visitors to the site to be quite depressed, full of anxiety, and some down-right hopeless.
Here's my major questions, but please add anything and everything that you think is important:
How do you best create a fun atmosphere on a forum that may be resistant to it?
What rules change when money is not a high priority? (I would like to be able to offset most hosting costs but I'm willing to take a loss myself.)
I have also registered CollegeDropouts.org to cover my bases but should I be concerned at all about using a .org?
While volume of traffic is by no means a big deal, how does one best start a community with little to start off of?
Thanks in advance!